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Online matching and its variants are some of the most fundamental problems in the online algorithms literature. In this paper, we study the online weighted bipartite matching problem. Karp et al. (STOC 1990) gave an elegant algorithm in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Matthew Fahrbach , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We consider distributed online min-max resource allocation with a set of parallel agents and a parameter server. Our goal is to minimize the pointwise maximum over a set of time-varying and decreasing cost functions, without a priori…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jingrong Wang , Ben Liang

Motivated by the applications of rental services in e-commerce, we consider revenue maximization in online assortment of reusable resources for a stream of arriving consumers with different types. We design competitive online algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi

We study the discrete bin covering problem where a multiset of items from a fixed set $S \subseteq (0,1]$ must be split into disjoint subsets while maximizing the number of subsets whose contents sum to at least $1$. We study the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Magnus Berg , Shahin Kamali

We contribute the first randomized algorithm that is an integration of arbitrarily many deterministic algorithms for the fully online multiprocessor scheduling with testing problem. When there are two machines, we show that with two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Mingyang Gong , Zhi-Zhong Chen , Guohui Lin , Lusheng Wang

In this paper, we analyze the problem of online convex optimization in different settings, including different feedback types (full-information/semi-bandit/bandit/etc) in either stochastic or non-stochastic setting and different notions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mohammad Pedramfar , Vaneet Aggarwal

The high proportions of demand charges in electric bills motivate large-power customers to leverage energy storage for reducing the peak procurement from the outer grid. Given limited energy storage, we expect to maximize the peak-demand…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Yanfang Mo , Qiulin Lin , Minghua Chen , Si-Zhao Joe Qin

We study the budget allocation problem in online marketing campaigns that utilize previously collected offline data. We first discuss the long-term effect of optimizing marketing budget allocation decisions in the offline setting. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Tianchi Cai , Jiyan Jiang , Wenpeng Zhang , Shiji Zhou , Xierui Song , Li Yu , Lihong Gu , Xiaodong Zeng , Jinjie Gu , Guannan Zhang

In the online sorting problem, $n$ items are revealed one by one and have to be placed (immediately and irrevocably) into empty cells of a size-$n$ array. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between items in consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Ioana O. Bercea , Lorenzo Beretta , Jonas Klausen , László Kozma

This paper considers distributed online optimization with time-varying coupled inequality constraints. The global objective function is composed of local convex cost and regularization functions and the coupled constraint function is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Xinlei Yi , Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Karl H. Johansson

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

The online assignment problem plays an important role in operational research and computer science which is why immense attention has been given to improving its solution quality. Due to the incomplete information about the input, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Clarence Gabriel R. Kasilag , Pollux M. Rey , Jhoirene B. Clemente

We provide a dual fitting technique on a semidefinite program yielding simple proofs of tight bounds for the robust price of anarchy of several congestion and scheduling games under the sum of weighted completion times objective. The same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Danish Kashaev

Randomized rounding is a technique that was originally used to approximate hard offline discrete optimization problems from a mathematical programming relaxation. Since then it has also been used to approximately solve sequential stochastic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Will Ma

This paper studies a distributed online convex optimization problem, where agents in an unbalanced network cooperatively minimize the sum of their time-varying local cost functions subject to a coupled inequality constraint. To solve this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Dandan Wang , Daokuan Zhu , Kin Cheong Sou , Jie Lu

We study a multi-objective model on the allocation of reusable resources under model uncertainty. Heterogeneous customers arrive sequentially according to a latent stochastic process, request for certain amounts of resources, and occupy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

In this paper we consider the problem of distributed nonlinear optimisation of a separable convex cost function over a graph subject to cone constraints. We show how to generalise, using convex analysis, monotone operator theory and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Richard Heusdens , Guoqiang Zhang

We design online algorithms for the fair allocation of public goods to a set of $N$ agents over a sequence of $T$ rounds and focus on improving their performance using predictions. In the basic model, a public good arrives in each round,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Siddhartha Banerjee , Vasilis Gkatzelis , Safwan Hossain , Billy Jin , Evi Micha , Nisarg Shah

This paper presents a distributed optimization scheme over a network of agents in the presence of cost uncertainties and over switching communication topologies. Inspired by recent advances in distributed convex optimization, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Saghar Hosseini , Airlie Chapman , Mehran Mesbahi

In numerous online selection problems, decision-makers (DMs) must allocate on the fly limited resources to customers with uncertain values. The DM faces the tension between allocating resources to currently observed values and saving them…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yihua Xu , Süleyman Kerimov , Sebastian Perez-Salazar